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Financial Assistance

Students with assistantships or financial aid must be registered for a minimum of ten credits, with at least five being level 500 or higher, every quarter.

Teaching and Research Assistantships

An assistantship is a contractual obligation to provide assigned services to the program. Graduate assistantships are limited to a maximum of two years (excluding summers); however, in order to be considered for a second year the student must reapply through the School of Graduate Studies and Research. A full-time assistantship assignment requires an average of 20 hours per week of work and enrollment in at least 10 but not more than 14 credit hours per quarter with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 each quarter.

$500 graduate student award to aid in the completion of her or his MS research project. To access this award, the student must: 1) successfully defend the research project during a public presentation, 2) obtain the signatures needed to complete the School of Graduate Studies’ Option Approval Form, and 3) have approved Institutional Animal Care and Use and/or Human Subjects Review protocol(s). Students whose research is fully funded through a federal grant awarded to the faculty supervisor are ineligible for this award. Upon completion of the research, each student will write a brief description of what was accomplished.